Possible Outcomes of Reading

Draw a digram in Kidpix, Word, PPT Yummy Dinner	Create a timeline of events	Prepare and perform an interview of the main character or an expert on the topic Earthrace	Read 6 word memoirsand then choose a photo and create a 6 word memoir Add your own photo
Create a play from a narrative and perform as Readers' Theatre	Contribute to class blog Read and respond to other class blogs	Contribute to a themed class wiki	Create an animation to retell the story in Pivot or other animation programme The Three Little Pigs
Retell the story in 5 frames	Create a movie / make a documentary of non fiction text A spider documentary Whaling Documentary	Create a flowchartof the story Link to an online flowchart tool	Use a Venn diagram to compare and contract characters or books
Create a pic a path story in PPT	Retell the story in another setting	Contribute to a class voicethread	Retell the story from another point of view Haven't found one but love this story of Goldilocks told by a 4 year old
Create a word search of key words	Complete a webquest with your group	Find 3 sites that will give you more information on a non fiction theme	Write 3 things you have learnt and 2 questions for further investigation

Reading Reading Everywhere

There was an old lady

Ideas to Inspire- is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.

Suzie's links - Suzie has collected a wide range of reading resources here. General reading resources, stories online, resources for specific texts, Harry Potter, other texts and authors

Pioneer Valley Books - books to read online. Great for data projectors. Books are levelled (American I think)

Junior

Starfall- I like It's All About Me
Peter Rabbit - FInd out about the characters and watch short clips
PowerPoint Resources - Scroll down to the nursery rhymes. Lots of ideas here
Language Skill Builders - Word families, synonyms, spelling, sequencing and more
Magnetic Rhymes - Move the words around to make a sentence
Phonics - A lot of links here to a range of activities
Little Red Riding Hood- Listen to the story or turn sound off and use as shared reading. Includes lots of follow up activities
Alphabet Puzzles- And more
Literacy Games - rhymes, letter recognition, blends
Blending Bingo - Download thee bingo cards and you're ready to go

Coconut Vowels

Spelling Bee- Story with Cloze format, reads the story and repeats words for you to spell. Choose appropriate level

Roy the Zebra has lots of fun interactive reading games here. Practice alphabetical order, double consonets, high frequency words, plurals and rhyming words.

Carl's Corner - Alphabet, Word families, Word study, write spell
Reading Activities- putting words together, letter sounds, rhymes, letter recognition

Shared Stories

Short Stories - Listen to the story or turn sound off and use as shared reading. Includes lots of follow up activities
Longer stories -
Online Talking Stories - Choose from a large range

Jack and the Beanstalk

Little Red Riding Hood
Story Online
Tumble Books - Read and listen online

Senior

Reading Matrix -
Create your own cloze- instructions here
Into the book - Reading Comprehension resource
Synonym Toast- Choose words that are similar in meaning
Synonym Hangman -
Synonyms
Phonics - A lot of links here to a range of activities
Wacky Wordsearch - or create your own hereOr here at Puzzlemaker Online
Literacy Activities - punctuation and parts of speech
Base Word Baseball
Spelling Bee- Story with Cloze format, reads the story and repeats words for you to spell. Choose appropriate level
Comprehension Upgrade - Interactive demo site where students can learn about author's purpose, finding the main idea, use context clues to solve unknown words etc


Class Projects
es1001tales - Join with other classes to tell a story
Story Starters - Spin the wheel to create a story starter
Classroom Book Talk - Read book lists, book reviews and you can add your own
Monster Projects- Write a description and get your partner to draw in Kidpix or Paint
5 Frame Storytelling- Explore telling a story though photography. See instructions and examples here. You need to join flickr to upload photos
Webquest Search - A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.
Scroll down to search the matrix, Select K 2-5 for Juniors and K 6 - 8 for seniors. American based, be selective
Places We Will Go - The Places We Will Go Project will be hosted between April 13 - May 8, 2009

And many more activities here at EALC Teachers Resources